Device for quenching coke.



L. 0,-PLAOGUS. DEVICE FOR QUENCH'ING COKE.

APPLICATION TILED JAN.14, 1911.

1,007,439, Patented 0ct.31, 1911.

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Patented Oct. 31, 1911.

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nNrr-n srairns PATENT or LUD'W'IG- CARL FLACCUS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T0 STETTINER CHAMO'ITE- FABRIK AOTIEN-GESELLSCHAFT RATION OF GERMANY.

VORM. DIDIER, 0F STE'ITIN, GERMANY, A COR-PO- DEVICE FOR QUENCHING COKE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 31, 1911.

Application filed January 14, 1911. Serial No. 602,570.

To all whom it may concer /i:

Be it known that I, LUDWIG CARL FLAC- cos, a subject of the German Emperor, and

resident ofthe borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Quenching Coke, of

toprovide an improved spraying arrange-j ment for the above-indicated purpose.

In thepreferred form of my invention, described hereinafter, a quenching car is provided with a spraying devicewhich may be operated while the car is standing'still 'or traveling.

The novel features of my invention are pointed o-ut'in the appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the'accompany- 'ing drawings, in which Figure l is an end elevation of a. quenching car provided with my improved spraying device; and Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, with parts broken away.

My invention may be applied any approved construction, and in the drawing I have shown the spraying device in conjunction with a car of a standard make now on the American market. I shall therefore not describe the car structure in detail. The frame A is supported by wheels B running on rails C. These rails are arranged adjacent to a coke-producing plant (not .shown) and extend transverselyin front of a bench of coke ovens, in the customary manner. Parallel with the track formed by the rails C is arranged a trough or gutter D so arranged as to receive waste water, from the various apparatus connectedwith'a coke gutter D dips the suction pipe E of a pump F, which in the example illustrated is'a centrifugalpump driven direct. by 'a suitable motor such asan lectric'motor G. ..The

suction pipe is shown provided with the usual perforatedintake or strainer E. The pump throws the water taken from the gutter'D into the ascending delivery pipe H provided with a transverse branch' H.

to cars of 1 lVith the upperend of the delivery pipe. are,

connected the two horizontal spraying pipes J, parallel with the rails C. These pipes are mounted loosely in stationary water-tight stuffing boxes K, K, so that each pipe may turn or rock about its longitudinal-axis. The stuffing boxes K communicate with the delivery pipe H, and the stuffing boxes K are closed attheir outer ends. At a point or points intermediate between the stufiing boxes K, K", thespraying pipes J are suitably supported, as by a ball bearing L. Each of the pipes J is provided with perforations J, a single longitudinal row of thesebeing employed in the specific embodif mentshown in the drawing, and in the position illustrated by Fig. 1 the perforations point directly downward. Each of the pipes J is provided-with an upward extension or lug J the two lugs beingconnected by a rod 'M so that bothv pipes willbe rocked in unison to an equal extent. One of the pipes has an additional lug J extending laterally and pivotally connected at N- with a rod whose lower end has a pivotal connection at N with a hand :leverO fulcrumed on the frame A' at O. The dotted linesin Fig. 1

show the ,extreme positions of the'lever 0,

rod M, and lugs J and also show the angle a (of about 75) within'which the streams or jets discharged from the perforations J may be directed to one-side, or the other by the operation of the lever O. 1 The motor G is preferably independentv of the motor (not shown) which causes the car to travel on the rails C, so that the spraying device may be operated either while the car is standingv still or while it 'isunder way.

By swinging the pipes J about their longi--' tudinal axes, a much morerapid and efficient gutter in which the waste water collects, I-

dispense with the complicated water connections generally .required in the'ca se of cars-having spraying pipes, and I also effect a material saving in the amount of water requlred.

TO keep the standDiPe H filled-when the pump is stopped, so that the pump may then' be started readily, I provide a check'valve' P M oot nee of any suitable construction in the delivery pipe H, at a point between the pump and the spraying pipes. To facilitate starting the pump, in case Water should leak down past the valve P When the operation has been interrupted for a relatively consider able length of time, a sinall suction pipe R the starting of the pump is facilitated.

Various modifications may he made Without departing from the nature of my invention as specified in the appended. claim,

I claim:

The combination with track and. a car arranged to travel thereon, of a plurality of spraying pipes carried by said car and mounted to turn about different axes, means-i for supplying Water to said pipes and means for rocking said pipes in unison.

In testin'iony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two sun-- scribing Witnesses.

LUDVV 1G CARL FLAC i llliil lVitnesses:

R. S. BRUNNER, W. P. ENGELMAN. 

